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Posted May 03, 2012 in News
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A new survey of job growth rates in medium-sized cities ranks the Grand Rapids area as 10th best in the U.S., a 30-place improvement from the survey’s 2011 ranking.
“Michigan is beginning to see some signs of new life: perennial cellar dweller Holland-Grand Haven rose a remarkable 202 places to 19th on the overall list,” NewGeography.com said.
Among small cities, the Holland-Grand Haven area was ranked 16th. Among large cities, the Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn area was ranked 62nd out of 65.
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Posted May 03, 2012 in News
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, MI — Don’t be surprised if you see a large fire-breathing beast perched atop the new outdoor fermenting tanks installed at the New Holland Brewing Company in the future.
He’s just marking his territory.
The new equipment installed at the brewery’s production facility in Holland Township this week are the largest pieces of a $3 million expansion by New Holland this year to meet “exponential” demand growth for specialty brews like their Dragon’s Milk.
The five new 400-barrel outdoor tanks, shipped over from Germany, will allow the brewery to more than double brewing capacity, said CEO Brett VanderKamp.
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Posted April 26, 2012 in News
Holland — Johnson Controls Inc. could expand its Meadowbrook battery plant in Holland by almost 240,000 square feet and 300 jobs.
A site plan unanimously approved by the Holland Planning Commission on Tuesday outlined the construction of two expansions to the plant, totaling 238,087 square feet — or about four football fields’ worth of space.
The expansion could mean the eventual creation of about 300 jobs, Johnson Controls representatives told the Planning Commission.
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Posted April 10, 2012 in News
The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), an organization whose members are Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, today announced the award of a $5.48 million lithium-ion battery technology development contract to Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc.
The award, which completes work begun under previous contracts, is co-funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and includes a 50 percent cost-share by Johnson Controls. USABC awarded the contract to continue Johnson Controls’ development of lithium-ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) applications to meet USABC goals for low cost, long life, high power and high energy vehicle systems.
The focus of this 24-month program is to further increase the volumetric energy density of a hard-cased prismatic cell technology developed in a preceding USABC-Johnson Controls program through a combination of innovative material and processing advances. The improved energy density is aimed at reducing cost, volume and mass. All cells will be built either in Johnson Controls Battery Technology Center in Milwaukee or its Li-ion manufacturing facility in Holland, Mich.
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Posted April 05, 2012 in News
Stephen Kloosterman - The Holland Sentinel
Holland — The Zeeland-based Lakeshore Advantage economic development group has released survey results that show area industry is thriving.
Of area industrial companies surveyed by Lakeshore Advantage’s Businesses Services division during the past 10 months, 85 percent reported increasing sales, with another 12 percent reporting stable sales and only 3 percent reporting a decrease.
Two things in the survey stood out for Lakeshore Advantage Business Services Director Bruce Adair. First, when asked what are the community strengths, 63 percent of respondents chose the area’s workforce over virtues like business climate or location.
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